Separable bathroom bracket



Feb. 27, 1923.

E. W. HENGER SEPARABLE BATHROOM BRACKET Filed Aug. 12, 1922 Patented Feb. 27, 1923.

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. t m P EDWIN w; HENGER, or WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO oHAsn ooMrANIns,

' me, or WATERBURY, coNNnorIoU'r, A CORPORATION.

' SEPARABLE BATHROOM BRACKET Application filed August 12, 1922. Serial L70. 581,380. I. i

To all whom it may concrm'.

Be it known that I, EDWIN lV. HENGNR,

a citizen of the United States,'residing at WVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Separable Batlr room Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1, a view in front elevation of my improved separable bracket shown by broken lines as mounting a glass-receiving cup and a soap-tray.

Fig. 2, a view thereof in side elevation.

Fig. 3, a view in transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4, a View, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of the upper bracketmember as segregated for separate use.

Fig. 5, a corresponding view of the lower bracket-memberz Myinvention relates to an improvement in bath-room brackets, the object being to produce a simple and convenient two-part bracket constructed with particular reference to ease and convenience of manufacture and finishfand to having its upper and lower bracket-members adapted to be segregated and used independently of each other, if desired. I

lVith these ends in view, my invention consists in a separable bath-room bracket having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and particue larly pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I produce a two-part separable bathroom bracket consisting of an upper memher 6 and a lower member 7, each flared at a ssenibling sh oulder 16 (at-member v 17 being rounded, as at 20, to fit into the overlap and fit into in the upper, face of the inner end of the main shank of" the said bracket-member, as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 5. The integral mounting flange 17, at the inner end of the shank of the upper bracket-member 6, is formed with countersunk screw-holes 18, registering with the screw-holes 14 aforesaid, while the flat inner or bearing-face 19 of the said flange 17 is adapted in size and contourto fit over the exposed bearing-face 15 and concaved 16 of the lower brack- 7, the lower end of the flange assembling-shoulder shoulder 16, so that, when the upper and lower members are usedtogether, their lines will merge into each other and have the ap-' pearanceand effect of a unitary article, as shown particularly in Figure *2. 7 But the j special forms of the mounting-flanges 15' and 17 of the respective members 6 and7 in nowise disfigure thesame, so as to prevent their segregation and separate use, as shown by Figures 4 and 5 respectively,'in which the mounting-screws 21 are passed directly through the screw-holes of their flanges,- whereas, when the two members are used conjointly, the flange 17 of, thevupper member fits into and overlaps the flange 15 of the lower membe'rand clamps the latter in place, between itself and thewall.

My improved bath-room bracket as thus the jobber and purconstructed provides chaser with an item capable of three independent uses, in each of which it will present the appearance of being complete and unitary; "Thus, the two bracket-members,

may be used together with the effect of a I duplex bracket, while either of them may be used independently without any sense-of being adapted for duplex use, Furthermore, by making the bracket in two parts, the machining, ing of their outer ends is greatly facili tated.- q Iclaim: g

1. A separable, two-part, bath-room bracket, having an upper and'a lower member, each adapted at itsouter'end-for the attachment of a bath-room fixture, and each having its inner end provided with a mounting-flange,the said flanges having registering screw-holes and flat, rear bearing; faces, and one being shaped to partially ENT, cries-.

threading and counterbon" the other, which is correspondingly 7 members may be used congointly or'indehaving its inner end provided with a Inount-' ing-flange, the said flanges having registering screw-holes and-flat, rear bearing-faces and the lower portion of the flange of the upper'rneniberbeing adapted'to overlap and jfit into the recessed upper portion of the recessed, whereby the, said flange of the lower member, the flange of which is set back frolnthe butt end of its 15 shank to form a shoulder which is fitted by the lower edge of the flange of the upper -member, whereby the said members'rnay be used conjointly or-independently as desired.v

In testimony whereof, I have signed this 20 specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN WV. HENGER.

\Vitnesses:

A. C. BECKER, J. S. NEAGLE. 

